Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of Heaven and Oh Forbidden. Weirdly enough, she’s been known to cook chickens and dress them up in little outfits (www.emilychickenson.com). She lives in a provincial Swiss country house, complete with an apple orchard, a strawberry patch, raspberry and red currant bushes, and a whole garden full of a bunch of other crap she has yet to identify.